DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

[themodawakens]

Use this post for things that are neither prompts nor questions for the mod.

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Comments

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

low feedback is almost a loop. See no feedback, give less feedback. Is anyone still here?

At this point I am not even expecting feedback to fills anymore.

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

I still feedback when I see something I like and lurk around the fills page/flat view of the current round. However I am way less likely to fill, especially anything from earlier rounds, as it goes almost completely unnoticed. Basically, if I'm not going to cross-post a fill, there's not much point to writing it at all. A lot of OPs have moved on, too.

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

Yet AO3 is still very much active? Ehhhh? And there are still quite a few tumblr organized events going on.

Times like these I miss LJ. Concentrate all our same fandom crap in one place.

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

Kinkmemes fill a very particular niche in fandom. The culture's pretty unique, as is the pace, as is the eventual drop in interest. Kinkmemes are butterflies, shiny and pretty and liable to drop dead soon after mating... I feel like this metaphor got away from me, but in a cool way. The point is, kinkmemes generate a lot of content, fast, and then die off and that's only to be expected, but still kind of melancholy.

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

I'm more interested in writing than prompting, and these days most of the prompts involve Kylo or Hux. Both Kylo and Hux bore me to death.

Re: Unfinished fills

[(Anonymous)]

Just my two cents, but the drop in feedback on meme hasn't much affected my motivation. I use the kinkmeme primarily for inspiration, and after a prompt catches my eye, it isn't any different from writing fic based off of my own ideas. At that point, it mostly comes down to my own determination to finish. The slowing down doesn't really affect me either, since I've saved lots of prompts from past rounds. Of course, that's just me - other people seem to have quite different experiences.